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Top 15 Hua Hsu Quotes (2026 Update)

Hua Hsu Quote: “Some friends complete us, while others complicate us. Maybe you feel as if there were nothing better in the world than driving in a car, listening to music with friends, looking for an all-night donut shop. Nobody says a thing, and it is perfect. Maybe your lifelong fascination with harmony finally began to make sense in those scenes, packed in your family’s station wagon, singing along to “God Only Knows,” waiting in the parking lot until the song was over.”

1. “Some friends complete us, while others complicate us. Maybe you feel as if there were nothing better in the world than driving in a car, listening to music with friends, looking for an all-night donut shop. Nobody says a thing, and it is perfect. Maybe your lifelong fascination with harmony finally began to make sense in those scenes, packed in your family’s station wagon, singing along to “God Only Knows,” waiting in the parking lot until the song was over.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “Friendship rests on the presumption of reciprocity, of drifting in and out of one another’s lives, with occasional moments of wild intensity.”

2. “Friendship rests on the presumption of reciprocity, of drifting in and out of one another’s lives, with occasional moments of wild intensity.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “Assimilation was not a problem to be solved but the problem itself.”

3. “Assimilation was not a problem to be solved but the problem itself.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “Derrida remarked that friendship’s driver isn’t the pursuit of someone who is just like you. A friend, he wrote, would “choose knowing rather than being known.” I had always thought it was the other way around.”

4. “Derrida remarked that friendship’s driver isn’t the pursuit of someone who is just like you. A friend, he wrote, would “choose knowing rather than being known.” I had always thought it was the other way around.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “At that age, time moves slow. You’re eager for something to happen, passing time in parking lots, hands deep in your pockets, trying to figure out where to go next. Life happened elsewhere, it was simply a matter of finding a map that led there. Or maybe, at that age, time moves fast; you’re so desperate for action that you forget to remember things as they happen. A day felt like forever, a year was a geological era.”

5. “At that age, time moves slow. You’re eager for something to happen, passing time in parking lots, hands deep in your pockets, trying to figure out where to go next. Life happened elsewhere, it was simply a matter of finding a map that led there. Or maybe, at that age, time moves fast; you’re so desperate for action that you forget to remember things as they happen. A day felt like forever, a year was a geological era.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “It was exciting to meander and choose who you wanted to be, what aspects of yourself to accent and adorn. You were sending a distress signal, hoping someone would come to your rescue.”

6. “It was exciting to meander and choose who you wanted to be, what aspects of yourself to accent and adorn. You were sending a distress signal, hoping someone would come to your rescue.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much.”

7. “It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “Smoking offers a way to build natural breaks into conversation. Lighting a cigarette starts a timer.”

8. “Smoking offers a way to build natural breaks into conversation. Lighting a cigarette starts a timer.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “Even then, they understood that American life is unbounded promise and hypocrisy, faith and greed, new spectrums of joy and self-doubt, freedom enabled by enslavement. All of these things at once.”

9. “Even then, they understood that American life is unbounded promise and hypocrisy, faith and greed, new spectrums of joy and self-doubt, freedom enabled by enslavement. All of these things at once.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “Our students in Richmond had been identified as at-risk youth. But they weren’t just at risk of succumbing to specific ills, like gangs and drugs, which were ever present. The more general risk was that they would step into too much of the world too quickly – that they would never have the chance to discover their potential on their own terms, whatever that meant.”

10. “Our students in Richmond had been identified as at-risk youth. But they weren’t just at risk of succumbing to specific ills, like gangs and drugs, which were ever present. The more general risk was that they would step into too much of the world too quickly – that they would never have the chance to discover their potential on their own terms, whatever that meant.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “For a while, you were convinced that you would one day write the saddest story ever.”

11. “For a while, you were convinced that you would one day write the saddest story ever.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “A friend, he wrote, would “choose knowing rather than being known.” I had always thought it was the other way around.”

12. “A friend, he wrote, would “choose knowing rather than being known.” I had always thought it was the other way around.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories.”

13. “The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “The next generation would acquire a skill on their behalf – one that we could also use against them. Commanding the language seemed like our only way of surpassing them. Home life took on a kind of casual litigiousness. The calm and composed children, a jaunty bounce to our sentences, laying traps with our line of questioning. The parents, tired and irritated, defaulting to the native tongue.”

14. “The next generation would acquire a skill on their behalf – one that we could also use against them. Commanding the language seemed like our only way of surpassing them. Home life took on a kind of casual litigiousness. The calm and composed children, a jaunty bounce to our sentences, laying traps with our line of questioning. The parents, tired and irritated, defaulting to the native tongue.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “You know, you never know who will complicate you in a meaningful way.”

15. “You know, you never know who will complicate you in a meaningful way.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical.”

16. “My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “The intimacy of friendship, he wrote, lies in the sensation of recognizing oneself in the eyes of another. We continue to know our friend, even after they are no longer present to look back at us. From that very first encounter, we are always preparing for the eventuality that we might outlive them, or they us. We are already imagining how we may someday remember them.”

17. “The intimacy of friendship, he wrote, lies in the sensation of recognizing oneself in the eyes of another. We continue to know our friend, even after they are no longer present to look back at us. From that very first encounter, we are always preparing for the eventuality that we might outlive them, or they us. We are already imagining how we may someday remember them.”

Hua Hsu Quote: “That’s the dilemma of life: you have to find meaning, but by the same time, you have to accept the reality.”

18. “That’s the dilemma of life: you have to find meaning, but by the same time, you have to accept the reality.”

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